May 13, 2015

Dan Pasciuti and Isaac Jilbert’s article on the roots of the Baltimore unrest

The Arrighi Center’s Dan Pasciuti and Isaac Jilbert published an important piece on the political-economic roots of the recent unrest in Baltimore in the wake of Freddie Gray’s death. Their article, The Building Blocks of Deprivation, asks us to look at “how redevelopment has affected [Baltimore] city, exacerbating longstanding social divides and creating new ones along the way. The current policy of urban renaissance for some, premised on the exclusion of the many, must be reconsidered.”